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Yesterday marked the 15 years since the first PayPal transaction on record, October 16, 1999. Before the days of the iPhone, back when we used Palm Pilots, Paypal was known as Confinity. According to Hill Ferguson, the SVP and chief product officer at Paypal, their first business model was a focus on mobile phones. Confinity […]

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AlphaPoint has raised $1.35m in new funding to internationalize its line of digital currency exchange solutions.

Bitcoin Price retreated to yesterday’s lower target near $373 and is now gearing up for a return to $400. In choosing the lower target, the market has pushed price back below several important moving averages. A longer consolidation may now be on the cards. Global Economy Bitcoin Price Analysis Summary Comments Global Economy Gold relinquished […]

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bitFlyer, a Japanese Bitcoin exchange, announced today that they obtained $236,000 through fundraising from the Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, an investment vehicle. That is the first investment in a company based in Japan for the Group. This investment will be the first convertible bond issue by bitFlyer. According to Investopedia, a convertible bond “can be converted […]

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A developer who blacklisted gambling websites with custom bitcoin code has raised tempers, and a few interesting questions.

Following the story even further of bitcoin exchange CEO Alex Green even further, a second name change document has come to my attention. Through an anonymous source, someone very close to Kennedy in the past, a second Deed Poll may prove of a name change from Ryan Gentle to Ryan Kennedy. “It is my belief […]

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Crowd payment solutions provider Mobbr announced the launch of a crows payment platform known as Mobbr Crowd Payments, which also has Bitcoin as one of its currencies. The platform is the world’s first and only crowd payments platform for the collaborative economy. Mobbr’s platform activates the potential of crowd-sourced labor. Users of the platform sign […]

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At the Hasher’s United conference in Las Vegas, Genesis Mining unveiled their Project X platform as the next evolution in their cloud mining service. Marco Streng, the CEO of Genesis Mining, gave an excellent rundown of Project X as well as a teaser video. Genesis had a booth at the Inside Bitcoins conference as well […]

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We all know that bitcoin is decentralized electronic money that runs on a network that can do all kinds of interesting things. The key question is, what can you do with bitcoin that you can’t do with anything else? What does it mean when bitcoin goes native? Note that the term “native” applied to bitcoin is due to Fred Wilson (a venture capitalist based in New York) and expanded upon by Chris Dixon (another venture capitalist based in San Francisco).  Wilson writes (in The Bitcoin Hype Cycle): “What’s more interesting is the question of what will lead us onto the slope of enlightenment? I am thinking that we will start to see native applications of Bitcoin. These would be things […]

Brisbane police have raided a cafe with ties to a biker gang, seizing a bitcoin ATM during the operation.

Bitcoin startup Beam, headquartered in Ghana’s capital Accra has created a product that will enable the Nigerian, and Ghanaian diaspora communities in the UK remit money home instantly and affordably. Each year the close to 100,000 Ghanaians in the UK send about US$ 23 million homeward. Nigerians in the UK who number close to half […]

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Marc Andreessen talks bitcoin, Apple Pay and payments in general at the Dreamforce 2014 conference in San Francisco.

Legendary Virtual Reality (VR) developer John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR, tweeted: “I am rather pleased that the Libertarian Party of Texas started taking Bitcoin donations on my recommendation [link]” to his more than 160 thousand followers. Also read: Libertarian Party Of Texas And Other Political Organizations Accept Bitcoin Donations John Carmack is considered as […]

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It turns out that there is more to Sweden than fjords, Volvo and smorgasbord. By 2030, Sweden could become the first country in the world to become a truly cashless society.  Today, 80% of all transactions in Sweden are done electronically, or by debit card. Also read “Sweden and Norway to Bitcoin VAT – Norway […]

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It is the interesting possibility proposed by a new startup called BadgerHunt. The principle is quite simple: advertisers pay in Bitcoin to display the logo of their brand on selected individuals’ clothes or cars. Indeed, during registration, volunteers must fill in a fairly detailed profile to make sure they match the expectations of the advertisers. […]

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Just a week ago, Filipino congresswoman Kimi Cojuangco introduced a bill in the Filipino House of Representatives that would create a government-backed digital currency that would serve as an official medium of exchange for domestic online payments. This digital currency, known as the “e-peso,” was proposed as part of the E-Peso Act of 2014. The e-peso […]

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MaryJaneCoin launched in late September with the goal of becoming the premiere cryptocurrency for the medicinal marijuana sector. Over the past week, the MaryJaneCoin price exploded by more than 2000%. CCN examines this altcoin price explosion to help traders make informed investing decisions. Also Read: CannabisCoin Price Gets High on Eve of Yes We CANN […]

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In a news bit posted by European Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp earlier today, the once-largest Bitcoin exchange promulgated their FINAL NOTICE TO UNVERIFIED ACCOUNT HOLDERS. Some thirteen months ago, Bitstamp updated its Verification Policy to  require verification in order to have access to bitcoin and bank transfers. It seems that despite a years time, there are […]

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From an anonymous tip, CCN received a leaked document of a name change, also known as a Deed Poll in the United Kingdom. Over the past few days, allegations arose claiming Moolah CEO Alex Green is operating under a pseudonym to hide his true identity. Various documents, photos and sources linked Green to known Bitcoin […]

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The Future Actuary recently posted an article by Rui Dong entitled, “What is Bitcoin?” Seeing as there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of these articles floating around the internet (oh look – I wrote one too!) I almost passed it up. Except that this particular Bitcoin intro article came from the Society of Actuaries.For those of you […]

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As of writing, popular bitcoin exchange MintPal is up with an alternative withdraw system after being shut down for a number of days, trapping more than $130,000 worth of cryptocurrency from its users. The company that once claimed ownership, Moopay LTD., now claims that it never had ownership in the first place and that it […]

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How to spot a scam In the wake of this morning’s Bit-Trader.biz announcement, I thought it was time to finally write an article about spotting scams. I’ve been “doing” Bitcoin fo-re-ver. You haven’t heard of me because, for the most part, I’m a lurker – and I like it that way. But recently, I’ve come out of the closet a bit more loudly in public. For a little background on me … I’m a marketer. I have handled large brands, small brands, and everything in between. Nowadays, I run my own home security company, Alarm Grid. I’m the director of marketing and an avid Bitcoiner. Those are probably the two activities that I spend the most time on these days. […]

Bitstamp will close select, unverified user accounts in 28 days, potentially handing over information to authorities at this time.